Dr draper, it comes to me through the mists, so I suspect from the late 40s or early 50s, American I'd say. Of course my mind from that time is virused by such luminaries as Sergeant Ken Donegan of Amuuurican Forces in Yuuurup, Nooscast compiled from the Wahres of UP, AP, and INS on this frequency, from AFN Stutt Gort, Frank Fort and Wil Helms Haaven, and the home grown offerings from the 'Ammersmith Palais ("Write a Tewne for a Thausand Pounds and a Prize may come tew yew") and Edmundo Ros.

Farrell

18th Aug 2008, 16:14

Davaar...

Is it Blues or Big Band?

Matt35

18th Aug 2008, 16:23

Davaar,

Edmundo Ros...the memory I have from Govan is when one of our neighbours asked a priest about using french letters.

He absolutely forbade it and told her to use the rhythm method...

She came back weeks later and said the neighbours were complaining about listening to Edmundo Ros every Saturday night...

Matt.

Davaar

18th Aug 2008, 16:40

Farrell, not big band. Looking back, or listening back, it might have been what they call "specialty", although it could have offended only the most sensitive.

It would have been about the time they had that one (the grammar, you understand, is not mine)"If Ah knew you were comin' I'd a hired a band, biggest band in the land" (and also "baked a cake") How d'ye do?, How d'ye do, How d'ye do?"; and also "Hey! Ba-ba-re-bop" rings, so to speak, a bell [Oooops! I see that one dates from 1945. Well! Well! Louis Prima ... so Keely Smith must have had a note or two as well. Golly! That is going back to Mairsydotesndoesydotesnliddlelambseativyakidlleativytoowouln dntyou?]

Farrell

18th Aug 2008, 16:53

The only song called Man or Mouse that I know of is by Little Junior Parker - a blue's artist from the fifties.
Quite a slow number - however if a different group covered it at the time, it would lend itself to an increase in tempo.